THE GOD-MAN The Life, Journeys and Work of Meher Baba with an ...

THE UNIVERSAL MESSAGE 345Man being unconscious of actually possessing the never-ending continually conscious experience thatGod is everything and all else is nothing, for him everything is everything: Air is. Water is. Fire is. Earthis. Light is. Darkness is. Stone is. Iron is. Vegetation is. Insect is. Fish is. Bird is. Beast is. Man is. Good is.Bad is. Pain is. Pleasure is - and thus there is no end to what all else is, until he arrives at 'nothing is' andinstantaneously he realizes 'God Is'.It is not easy for man to accept and keep on accepting under all circumstances that God Is.Even after his firm acceptance that God Is, it is supremely difficult though not impossible for him torealize that he has firmly accepted. And realization means that instead of being fully conscious that he isman, man becomes fully conscious that he is God, was God, has always been God and will ever remainGod....Before he can know Who he is, man has to unlearn the mass of illusory knowledge he has burdenedhimself with on the journey from unconsciousness to consciousness. It is only through love that you canbegin to unlearn, thus eventually putting an end to all that you do not know. God-love penetrates theillusion, while no amount of illusion can penetrate Godlove. Start learning to love God by beginning tolove those whom you cannot. You will find that in serving others you are serving yourself. The more youremember others with kindness and generosity, the less you remember yourself; and the less youremember yourself the more you forget yourself. And, when you completely forget yourself, you find meas the Source of all Love.Give up parrotry in all its aspects. Start practising whatever you truly feel to be true and justly to be just.Do not make a show of your faiths and beliefs. You have not to give up your religion, but to give upclinging to the outer husk of mere ritual and ceremonies. To get to the fundamental core of Truthunderlying all religions, reach beyond religion.Through endless time God's greatest gift is continuously given in silence. But when mankind becomescompletely deaf to the thunder of his silence, God incarnates as man. The Unlimited assumes the limited,to shake maya-drugged humanity to a consciousness of its true destiny and to give a spiritual push to theworld by his physical presence on earth. He uses the body for his universal work, to be discarded in finalsacrifice as soon as it has served its purpose.God has come again and again in various forms, has spoken again and again in different words anddifferent languages the Same One Truth - but how many are there that live up to it? Instead of makingTruth the vital breath of life, man compromises by making over and